Month: December 2018

Mary Fox, Miriam Monasch, Ryan Nelson, Jessie Rae Rayle, and Jason Peterson in Yellow Tree Theatre's production of Miracle at Christmas Lake. Photo by Justin Cox.
The first year that Yellow Tree opened, it lost its rights to its planned holiday show and theatre co-founder Jessica Lind wrote an original show,

A promotional photo for Brave New Workshop's holiday production, Angels We Have Heard Are High. Photo by Dani Werner.
Holidays bring snacks, stress, and (often) self-medication. Brave New Workshop's current holiday show throws these together as Angels We Have Heard Are High (O Holy Crap!). As the title suggests, the "baked" part

Una (Sara Marsh) and Ray (Luverne Seifert)'s discomforting reunion in Dark & Stormy's production of Blackbird. Photo by Rick Spaulding.
It's been a decade since Blackbird took home London's Olivier Award for Best New Play. The current staging by Dark & Stormy Productions, now playing at the Grain Belt Warehouse in

Melanie Wehrmacher and McKinnley Aitchison in the Old Log Theatre production of Lend Me a Tenor. Photo courtesy of the Old Log Theatre.
Down at the Old Log Theatre, the Cast & Cru restaurant is dishing out desserts like the Berry Macaron Melange. What is this dairy-free, gluten-free treat, you say? Just

Cassie (Roshni Desai), one of the staff at Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's Pemberley estate lights a candle as the holidays return to Jane Austen's world. Photo by Rich Ryan.
If you're wondering how big a deal Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is some two centuries after its publication, consider the

A promotional photo of Cantus.
Cantus brought its 2018 performances to a close on Sunday with the final installment (for now) of its Christmas with Cantus concerts. The performance featured an array of classic music, some more contemporary numbers such as Joni Mitchell's "The River", and a new vocal work by Catherine Dalton.
That

It's been a whiplash year for awards and the Twin Cities performing arts scene. In fact, it's just been a whiplash year, period. In 2018, allegations of sexual assault and other misbehavior emerged at several local arts organizations. Cornerstone organizations such as Intermedia Arts and the Soap Factory remain shuttered

An array of characters from Theatre Coup d'Etat's Fight Night performance series. Photos by Craig James Hostetler.
If you saw a poster that said "Celebrity Deathmatch meets Highlander" and promised characters from Miley Cyrus to Darth Vader fighting it out with words, axes, knives, bricks, bats, hand-to-hand, and rubber chickens, you'd probably have a lot

The cast of the national touring company of Les Miserables takes to the barricades. Photo by Matthew Murphy.
In 1832 in Paris, at a time of growing inequality, the funeral procession for a popular public figure led to an eruption of violence. Hundreds died fighting at makeshift barricades with stolen weapons.

The cast of the Jungle Theater's 2018 and 2019 productions of The Wolves. Photo by Dan Norman.
The Jungle Theater's hit 2018 production of Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves is coming howling back in 2019. In a bit of sleight of hand, however, the January 31-February 17 revival jumps from the company's longtime home in Uptown